Quotes About Fear

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.

Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.

I just recently became aware of how tenuous my life is. I don't have time for fear.

The Warrior of the Light knows that everyone is afraid of everyone else.

You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.